Qiu Yan pondered: "If Zi Yan wasn't the murderer back then, why did he wear a bird mask." She seemed to have thought of something, "Ying Xian, he may be wearing that mask for you, to disturb your thinking."
Gong Yingxian's eyes changed: "Yes, yes! From the beginning of the video, he explained in a tone of dialogue with us. Whether it is the mask or what he said, we feel that he is targeting us. , is retaliating against us and declaring war on us, but maybe this is just a means by him to confuse us and limit our thinking. In fact, we have never understood what his motive is."
Ren Yi repeated in a low voice: "Motivation..."
"Is it revenge? Is it provocation? Is it purely wanting to commit a crime?" Qiu Yan frowned and asked himself, "What is his motive?"
"Prometheus, missionaries, fire, prairie fire..." Gong Yingxian repeatedly murmured the words Zi Yan mentioned in the video, and fell into deeper thinking.
Everyone is racing against time trying to find the answer to the question at hand, Ren Yi paced back and forth, he kept looking at the time, he was both annoyed by his powerlessness at the moment, and also agitated by the merciless passage of time panic.
This is not an ordinary countdown to the New Year, it is a countdown to the lives of tens of thousands of people, and they must not fail.
At this time, news came from Cai Qiang that they had found the vehicle that had delivered the explosives. It was one of the equipment vehicles of the company responsible for the main stage construction, and they had already set off to find the person in charge.
Although the involved vehicle was found, this is not good news. Due to the different sizes of projects undertaken by this kind of company, they usually do not hire full-time staff for such manual work on site. The turnover of personnel is very high, and it may not be able to be completed quickly. Find the culprit.
Captain Zhang immediately locked the vehicle involved through monitoring. This vehicle entered and exited the stadium three times today. A total of eleven people who touched and moved equipment and equipment were all young and middle-aged men.
"This person looked suspicious, and looked around several times, as if he was observing something."
"Send his photo to Cai Qiang."
"Dr. Gong." Tan Haochun said, "I have summarized the domestic fire cases in the past few years, but the volume is too large. I need keywords to narrow the scope."
Gong Yingxian said: "Screen out those fires in underdeveloped areas, retaliatory arson, arsonists over 45 years old, large-scale fires, secondary fires caused by other reasons, focus on first-, second- and third-tier cities, and focus on fire as the first or The main method of crime, a fire that can be caused by a single person, with more text or image content on Seraph."
Tan Haochun stuffed another handful of melon seeds into his mouth, and rubbed his hands vigorously: "Leave it to me!"
Ren Yi couldn't help urging: "There is less than half an hour left. If you still can't determine the location of the bomb, it's really too late."
Gong Yingxian took a deep breath: "Give me some more time."
At this time, He Gu made progress on the other side: "Officer Gong, take the lead."
The two hurried over.
A table was covered with all kinds of complicated design drawings. He Gu took the gangster's action track map calculated by Tan Haochun and explained: "Based on this map, I can figure out where he may have been in a few time periods." Compared with the buried lines of the place and equipment, I think his goal is not a single system, but a chain explosion caused by an explosion.”
Gong Yingxian squinted his eyes and looked at the blueprint: "The monitoring time for each hacker intrusion does not exceed 30 minutes. If an adult walks fast, it takes about 100 meters per minute, plus the time to avoid eyes and ears and install bombs." , coming and going for more than 20 minutes on foot, it is likely to be a smoke bomb made by hackers, which can be ruled out."
"Okay." He Gu deleted the ones that spanned too far, leaving fewer and fewer motion tracks, and more and more clear.
"What kind of equipment are these?"
"This is the boiler room, but the boiler room is the first place to be inspected. The gangsters would not plant bombs in such an obvious place. The line extending from the boiler room is the gas pipeline, and these are water pipes. The gas pipeline is The most likely to cause explosions, fires and mass casualties."
Ren Yi said: "We have closed the combustible gas valve, and the remaining gas in the pipeline is not enough to form a chain explosion."
"Yes, so the ultimate goal of the criminals should not be gas. There are two very dangerous things in these lines, one is the solar power system and the energy storage generator, and the other is the hydraulic system. The former has a very large Power storage, the latter has several hydraulic cylinders, this hydraulic system not only plays a role in sewage discharge, but the expansion and contraction of the canopy on the roof of the venue, the lifting and rotating of the stage, all involve hydraulic pressure."
Ren Yi said: "However, these two things are relatively stable. Electric circuit fires are easy to extinguish, and hydraulic oil is very difficult to burn."
Gong Yingxian said: "He Gong, you know these devices better than us. Imagine if you were a gangster, how you would use these devices and six bombs to cause the greatest damage."
He Gu frowned deeply: "In principle, I think that if there is no gas to support the combustion, none of these devices will cause a large-scale explosion."
"But Ziyan couldn't have imagined that we would cut off the gas."
Qiu Yandao: "Maybe we've overcomplicated things. Ziyan's purpose is not to cause large-scale casualties, but to send a signal, a clarion call to declare war. After all, as long as a bomb explodes here, it will become international news. .”
"But in this way, the places where the bombs are planted may be random, and we will never be able to find them all within an hour. I don't think Zi Yan will set up an unsolvable situation."
Ren Yi said coldly: "He is the leader of Cult X, a perverted arsonist, do you still expect him to kindly give us a hint?"
"I think he will." Gong Yingxian said firmly, "Because of his ego."
Everyone looked at Gong Yingxian in puzzlement.
"If he was just trying to create an incident, he wouldn't have posted this video beforehand to remind us that we're in the dark and that he can blow us all up. He said it was a New Year's gift, but it was. Give us a letter of war." Gong Yingxian looked at Ren Yi, "He said, we are connected and bonded to him, and it is God's will that made up all these coincidences, and he must obey God's will , light this fire. In the past few confrontations, although they have done a lot of evil, we have also solved the case and arrested people. In order to become an opponent of this organization, Hongyan's death is our victory for them, and it is likely that Ziyan will be humiliated and even challenged his authority. Therefore, he will, on this symbolic day, Beat us in this stadium where everyone is watching."
Ren Yi only felt his hands and feet were cold, and a chill rushed straight to his forehead.
A flash of light flashed in Gong Yingxian's mind, and his lips trembled immediately, "He's broadcasting live. No, it's six media stations and one Internet station that are broadcasting live, and he's going to perform his feat in this live broadcast. That The people from the organization and the secret users on Seraphim must all be watching in front of the screen. So he will set up a relatively fair game, and he will give us a chance to resist. If this is a dead end at the beginning, it will not reflect His strength, he's so egotistical and arrogant, he's going to watch us die and finally live broadcast our failures to everyone."
Qiu Yan bit his red lip and cursed fiercely.
He Gu slapped the table suddenly, and he said in a deep voice, "I thought of it, I was negligent before, but now I think of it!"
"what?"
He Gu rushed to the table, pulled out a few blueprints, and looked at them carefully.
"He Gong, what the hell..."
"Antifreeze!" He Gu's eyes widened. "The antifreeze in the condensate water circulation system is only added in winter. Antifreeze is relatively safe and has a high ignition point, but if it encounters high temperature and explosion..."
Gong Yingxian clenched his fists: "The ignition point of ethylene glycol can reach more than 400 degrees, but once it reaches its explosive limit... This water circulation system is spread throughout the venue, including the structural columns. That is to say, once the criminals use gas, storage The explosion of the motor or hydraulic cylinder detonated the antifreeze, and the entire venue was in danger."
He Gu picked up the design drawing with trembling hands: "I'm now marking all the key nodes where these systems intersect, and the vicinity of those places must be the embedding point of the explosion!"
Ren Yi looked at his watch, his voice trembling: "There are still 20 minutes."
At this time, Cai Qiang sent news that the suspicious man photographed on the surveillance camera was a temporary worker recruited by the construction company. He had disappeared at this time. They were searching for the entire venue, and the photos had been sent to the mobile phones of everyone involved.
He Gu finally marked 24 nodes, and Qiu Yan immediately sent out the information, asking multiple teams of police and firefighters to conduct a search. Once found, immediately notify the bomb disposal team.
Ren Yi also wanted to lead a search team, but was stopped by Gong Yingxian: "You stay."
"I can't help you here, I'll go..."
"You stay." Gong Yingxian said with a heavy tone, "You know this gang of lunatics better than most of the police, and Xiao Tan will finish counting them soon, and I need your help." Although this is true It is one of the reasons why he wants to keep Ren Yi, but he has a more important, unspeakable selfishness, that is, he wants Ren Yi to stay away from the bomb. Regardless of whether the bomb will detonate in the end, they will not leave, and they will fight until the last moment. This is their mission, but he hopes that if that moment really comes, Ren Yi will be by his side.
"...Okay." Ren Yi stared deeply at Gong Yingxian, feeling a dull pain in his heart. Twenty minutes later, he no longer dared to think about what kind of fate awaited them, but he was no longer afraid of being able to share life and death with Gong Yingxian.
Soon, a group of firefighters led by Wang Meng found the first bomb in a power distribution box, which was successfully dismantled by the bomb disposal team.
There was a burst of cheers in the conference room.
At this time, Tan Haochun's data collection was also over. He collected all the fire cases that met the conditions given by Gong Yingxian in the past five years across the country, a total of more than 400 cases.
Gong Yingxian frowned and said, "It's still too much, delete...the criminals have already been caught."
The case was cut in half at once.
"Print it out." Gong Yingxian stood by the printer and said to Ren Yi, "It's too late to analyze in detail now, based on your experience, your intuition, and your understanding of this group of people, pick out those who you think are like They did it on a hunch."
Ren Yi nodded.
While the printer was spouting out paper, Gong Yingxian quickly browsed through it. He had an amazing memory, he could read ten lines at a glance, and he could quickly read the brief description of a case. If he felt suspicious after reading it, he would hand it over to Ren Yi.
It took the two of them nearly ten minutes to pick out 27 cases out of more than 200 cases. Some of them must have missed the net, and some have misjudged, but they have been able to provide them with some basic references.
While they were retrieving the case, the bombs were found and dismantled one by one.
Gong Yingxian and Ren Yi carefully reviewed the twenty-seven cases. The more Ren Yi looked at it, the more weird he felt, but he couldn't tell what was wrong. These cases seemed unconnected, and the regions, backgrounds, and victims were also very different, but he still felt something in them, allowing him to see a shadow behind these brief descriptions.
Gong Yingxian supported the table with both hands, his face was cloudy and uncertain.
Ren Yi said: "Ying Xian, what do you see?"
Gong Yingxian nodded: "We feel that these cases are strange because they are not retaliatory cases, but it is too coincidental to say that they are accidents. There are some traces of man-made in this coincidence, but we can assume that they are man-made , and it is hard to tell the motive behind it.”
"Yes, for example, this one. The travel photographer's RV caught fire. There are traces of suspected arson, but it can't be determined. It may also be a spontaneous combustion of gas."
"This is a blogger who likes to post videos of strange clothes online. His apartment caught fire, and both the arsonist and him were killed in the flames, but investigations showed that the two had no social contact."
"And this one, some graffiti trash cans, was very popular on the Internet for a while, and the person who burned them was caught, and the arsonist said that these trash cans looked weird and evil."
Tan Haochun blinked: "Is there any similarity between them?"
Gong Yingxian's brain was running fast, and he felt a splitting headache because of this. He had a strange idea, but it was hard to catch it.
Qiu Yan said anxiously: "There are only seven minutes left, and there is still one bomb that can't be found."
"Fire..." Gong Yingxian murmured, "Fire represents the will of the gods. What is the will of the gods? It is 'fairly treat every plant, tree, person, and thing in the world', 'rewards and punishments, rise and fall, life and death are all Heaven'."
Everyone looked at Gong Yingxian anxiously.
"'Fire represents the will of the gods and comes to the world, and those who are enlightened by the gods...'" Gong Yingxian kept repeating what Zi Yan said.
Suddenly, he raised his head, his eyes were bloodshot, and his expression was even a little distorted.
"You, what did you think of?"
"I understand, Zi Yan's so-called evil soul."
"What is it?!" Ren Yi said anxiously.
"Evil souls don't just refer to people, they may also be plants, trees, people and things. People who are enlightened by God are people who get 'fire'. Prometheus stole fire, but he didn't save mankind. He Just a missionary, he brought fire, the god's will, to the world, some people were enlightened and got fire, some people didn't get it, the 'fire' here is not the real 'fire', but 'enlightenment'. Purple Flame is better than Prometheus, he is the missionary, he uses fire to enlighten all living beings, his believers get the "fire" he passed on, and get enlightenment from God, most ignorant human beings don't get fire, these people It is the goal of his missionary work. But there is still a kind of people or things who get fire but are not enlightened by him, they are the evil souls that Zi Yan said!"
Everyone was dumbfounded.
"What is fire? Fire represents the heart, emotion, soul, life, great energy and vigorous energy. 'Fire' is the power that God bestows on all living beings. Some people get 'fire' and become believers in God. Just like Ziyan and his disciples, some people get fire, they are still ordinary people, they only use it for cooking and keeping warm, but there is another kind of people, they use 'fire' to make themselves stronger—whether it is external or internal, Let yourself be different, and let God's will lose its fairness on them. For example, if the fire starts a prairie fire, the short grass will be burned to death, but the big tree will be reborn as long as the root system does not die. God's fairness is here. questioned."
Qiu Yan said in surprise: "You mean, his so-called evil souls, to put it bluntly, are those people or things that are too outstanding?"
Ren Yi finally understood what Gong Yingxian meant: "In fact, the so-called elimination of evil souls is to eliminate dissidents, and the more outstanding people or things are, the more shocking and demonstrative they will be. To put it bluntly, Zi Yan is still trying to strengthen himself rule."
"Yes, Zi Yan uses this logic to brainwash his followers, thinking that these people or things not only violate the fair will of God, but some even use fire to fight fire, such as firefighters, and some use their own fire to fight against fire. To infect others, such as writers, artists, singers..." Gong Yingxian's face suddenly changed, and he said solemnly, "The last bomb is on the criminals, and Zi Yan's ultimate target is Song Juhan."